“Global Challenges in Diagnosing and Managing Lyme Disease—Closing Knowledge Gaps.”

To view the Lyme hearing, click below and then advance the counter to 28:00.

This meeting took place on July 17, 2012.

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[Please scroll ahead, hearing begins at minute 28:00 of the video.]

Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights
Chaired by Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ)

Witnesses from the IDSA, CDC and NIH were invited to the hearing but did not attend.

Attending witnesses:

Stephen W. Barthold, Ph.D. [scroll to 52:40]
Distinguished Professor
Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Center of Comparative Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine University of California, Davis

Raphael Stricker, M.D. [scroll to 56:50]
Vice President
International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society

Mark Eshoo, Ph.D. [scroll to 1:03:36]
Director, New Technology Development
Abbott

Ms. Patricia Smith [scroll to 1:10:25]
President
Lyme Disease Association

Mr. Evan White [scroll to 1:19:55]
Lyme Disease Patient

Ms. Stella Huyshe-Shires [scroll to 1:30:46]
Chair
Lyme Disease Action

Click here for a written summary of the various speakers.

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